Tag Archives: social media
Social Media Rejection
Setting the scene: you log onto Facebook and notice that one of your best friends has just updated their photo album with new pics from the weekend. You laugh at the first couple of photos as you see some fun shots of your friend. Then it happens. You see some other people in the photos [...]
Facebook :: How to Get the Dings to Stop
You may have noticed that Facebook recently introduced a friendly little “ding” to let you know when there is a new notification for you while you are either browsing in another window or away from your computer. They have made it an automatic setting, but it is an easy one to turn off.
Free Facebook Photo Covers {set 2}
This month Why We Web is happy to offer five free Facebook cover pictures for you to use – grab the ones you like, or be inspired to go and create your own personal Facebook cover! Enjoy ~
Free Facebook Cover Pictures {set 1}
One covert way we can share our faith and life values with others is through our personal space on the web – and for a whole lotta people that place is Facebook. From our status updates, to our profile pictures, to our cover pictures there is a lot of room to encourage others and leave [...]
5 Tips to Level Up Your Facebook Skillz
On the surface Facebook is easy to use. Most new users to Facebook can learn the basics fairly quickly. However, Facebook offers dozens of less obvious ways to fine-tune your own experience and to vastly improve the look of your timeline. Here are 5 quick tips you can implement today to level up your Facebook [...]
Internet Culture
In an earlier blog post, Modern Day Elementary Education, I attempted to demonstrate that it is no long necessary to have extensive technical knowledge to use modern computers or the Internet — but there IS something else that we DO need to understand. We need to understand the environment — or culture — of the [...]
Dude, You’re NOT on Facebook? What Are You Trying to Hide?!
We have reached the point where it seems everyone we know is on Facebook. Of course, not EVERYONE is on Facebook– as we all know a handful of people who still refuse to open an account. But why…? Hmmmmm… A technophobe maybe? No time to spare? Or is it something a little more sinister? == [...]
Modern Day Elementary Education
Earlier today my wife and I visited Education Station — a store located in a neighboring county that sells educational supplies and materials. Because we homeschool our children we tend to visit the store around this time of year annually, you could even call it an annual pilgrimage of sorts. This year, however, something caught [...]
The Way Teens Communicate
A recent study (a joint effort by Nielson, Ericsson, Common Sense Media and McAfee) has shown that teenagers are plugged into handheld gadgets like never before. The way teens communicate with each other has drastically changed. For example, only 4% of teenagers 13-17 indicated that using the phone to talk was the preferred method of [...]
God Used Mass Media
Speaking at our WWW Conference in June, Steve Sanchez made a comment that stuck in my mind. He spoke briefly about how God has always used mass media to get His message across. I had never thought of this before and it intrigued me to look a bit further into it. The result is confirming. God in [...]